Improvement in folding tables



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Folding-Table.

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NrrED TA'IES VILLIAM DECKER, OF MANCHESTER, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR OFCNE-V HALL` HIS RIGHT TOLEMUEL Cr. TROTT, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN FCLDING TABLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 161,597, dated April 6,1875; application led i December 16, 1874.

` Manchester, in the county of Essex, State of Massachusetts, haveinvented a certain new and useful Improvement in Work-Tables, of whichthe following is a description sufficiently full, clear, and exact toenable any person skilled in the art or science to which my inventionappertains to make and use the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawing, forming a part of this specification, in which-Figure l is an isometrical perspective View, and Fig. 2 a plan 0r bottomView.

Like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the differentfigures of the drawing.

My invention relates to that class of worktables which are provided withfolding legs; and consists in a novel construction and arrangement ofthe parts, as hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed, by which asimple, cheap, and effective device of this character is provided.

In the drawing, A represents the top or body ofthe table, and G F thelegs, which are hinged to the under side of the body near the ends bythe hinges b b. Between the legs F G there is an elongated bracket orstrip, C, arranged longitudinally in the center of the table, and hingedthereto at d. d. The legs E are disposed eccentrically or nearest theside ct, and the legs Gr, in a corresponding manner, nearest the side c,to enable them to be folded down, as shown in Fig. 2. Projecting fromthe under side of the body A are two pins, t' t', having heads, underwhich one of each pair of the legs spring when the table is folded,

and by which they are held, as exhibited in Fig. 2.

To set up the table for use the legs are bent outwardly, as shown by thedotted lines H, disengaging them from the pins, and being then turned uat right an 0les to the bodv as 1 e a a set forth.

WILLIAM DECKER. Witnesses:

H. E. METOALF, C. A. SHAW.

